Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Sprint
Sprint (sprĭnt), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sprinted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sprinting.] [Cf. Sprunt.] To run very rapidly; to run at full speed.
A runner [in a quarter-mile race] should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit.
Sprint, n. The act of sprinting; a run of a short distance at full speed.
Sprint race, a foot race at the highest running speed; — usually limited to distance under a quarter of a mile.